Doan Gang Documentary Team Films Reenactment At Mercer Museum

Doylestown PA

15 December, 2021

12:17 PM

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DOYLESTOWN, PA — The production team for the upcoming drama series "America's Original Outlaws" recently filmed a shooting reenactment at the Mercer Museum, as part of the production team's quest to discover and chronicle the exploits of the area's notorious "Doan Gang." So named for several members of the Doan family, the American Revolution-era gang was reportedly composed of around 30 British loyalists. Among them were accused murderers, traitors, and horse thieves. The group's most famous crime was the theft of the Bucks County Treasury in 1781, one in a string of their tax collector robberies that year. At the beginning of December, the documentary team for "America's Original Outlaws" filmed a reenactment of the infamous Halsey Cabin shooting at the Mercer Museum's loghouse. "Members of the Mercer Museum team are thrilled to be working with the documentary crew on their research about the Doans and, in some cases, even participating in the series itself," museum representatives wrote online. "In this scene, our very own Exhibit Specialist Clint Flack was one of the reenactors!" The local group Bucks County History shared the story of the cabin shooting in August, for its 238th anniversary. During a scuffle in which a party of locals cornered the Doan Gang in the cabin, founder Moses Doan was shot and killed. America's Original Outlaws has filmed in multiple towns around Bucks County as part of their research and development of the series. Learn more about the production's filming around Bucks County on the America's Original Outlaws Facebook page. Get more Bucks County news straight to your inbox when you subscribe to Patch.